Portraying troubled blues icon Etta James in the film "Cadillac Records" was a real eye-opener for the singer, but it's Streisand she'd really like to emulate.
Reporting from New York -- On a recent slate-gray afternoon in New York, Beyoncé zipped quickly through the front door of trendy Rivington Hotel on Manhattan's Lower East Side. The singer, her hair pulled back tightly, was wearing an immaculate black suit and perfectly knotted necktie that gave her a playful "Victor\Victoria" look, one suggesting to the gawking bystanders that the Rivington's latest guest just might be the world's most Superfly stockbroker.Upstairs, in the hotel's window-walled penthouse, the 27-year-old sat back, sipped a glass of water and announced that, like her suit, she was all about business with flair: " Barbra Streisand, that's the career model for me, I want to be like her. She is just the ultimate. And I want to be an icon too."
